Tag Archives: open access

Chapter 1 of my forthcoming book Punk Sociology is now available open access. The chapter (and book’s contents page) is available here and the publisher site is here. This chapter is probably the most conventional bit of the book, in that it … Continue reading →

The special issue of Cultural Sociology on ‘Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology‘ edited by Mike Savage and Elizabeth B. Silva is currently available open access. This includes all of the articles in the special issue. My piece on ‘Genre, Boundary … Continue reading →

Antipode have announced that from now on their book reviews will be open access on their website, rather than being in the journal. The journal Society and Space also has a similar arrangement. This seems to be working well. Society … Continue reading →

The LSE blog has recently published three pieces on open access publishing (this is a debate that is likely to rumble on): The first focuses on the limitations of institutional repositories. The second focuses on the myths around Creative Commons. … Continue reading →

I’ve uploaded the below open access piece to the Open Access and Audio Materials section of the blog: Beer, D. (2012) ‘Open Access and Academic Publishing: Some lessons from music culture‘, Political Geography 31(8): 479-480.

I’ve posted a few things about the open access debate in the past. The debate seems to be picking up momentum. The blog The Disorder of Things has an interesting and detailed response to the attempt to structurally impose open … Continue reading →